By Sherry Monahan, Bob Boze Bell
Sherry Monahan is an expert on ''the urban that would not die'' and its historical past. In Tombstone's Treasure, she makes a speciality of the silver mines, one explanation for the city's founding, and the saloons, the opposite cause town grew so quickly.
When the invention of silver at Tombstone first grew to become recognized in mid-1880, there have been approximately twenty-six saloons and breweries. through July of the next yr, the variety of saloons in Tombstone had doubled. the most well-liked saloon video games of the time have been faro, monte, and poker, with a few delivering keno, roulette, and twenty-one.
Monahan stocks precise stories approximately Tombstone's mining and playing background and describes a special time and locale the place filthy rich businesspeople and rugged miners rubbed elbows on the bar and gambled aspect by way of part.
It is either stunning and enlightening to benefit simply how refined Tombstone fairly used to be while the Earps, document Holliday, Johnny Ringo, and Curly invoice strode the boardwalks. Tombstone really had phones, ice cream parlors, espresso outlets, a bowling alley, and a swimming pool. Wow! it's so opposite to the Hollywood model of town . . . yet it truly is totally true.''--from the Foreword via Bob Boze Bell
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43 On October 1, 1881, an article about Tombstone appeared in the Mining & Scientific Press. The article explained where Tombstone was, how it got its name, and who discovered it. It also reported that Tombstone’s mining prospects were growing. At the time of printing, the town had fourteen steam hoisting works, six horsepower hoisters, and seven stamp mills, for a total of 125 stamps. ” The total bullion output for the end of August was a staggering $433,836. The Tombstone Milling & Mining Company, which employed 210 men, shipped four bars of bullion weighing 743 pounds.
The Gilded Age’s shaft was already down about one hundred feet, so Barber only had about thirty to fifty feet to go. He worked day and night shifts until one Wednesday afternoon, the workmen blew through the capping and discovered a rich ore deposit similar to that 41 CHAPTER ONE found in the Toughnut and Goodenough mines. The news of his strike spread like wildfire and created quite a stir in town. The next couple of days people visited the mine to see if, in fact, Barber had discovered silver.
Henry had come to town in early 1880 and was considered one of Tombstone’s top assayers. In addition to assaying ore for the mines in and around Tombstone, he contracted with various companies in other towns. He also taught others the skill of assaying—on reasonable terms. 37 CHAPTER ONE Mining boomtowns drew all types of folks. Tombstone was no different. People of various religious affiliations, different occupations, and a wide array of nationalities called Tombstone home. It could easily have been called the “melting pot” of Arizona.